Quotes About Righteousness

lock yourself into a virtuous path.

Because of the importance of perceiving the means as morally acceptable, there may be a strong ongoing need for justification in idealistic evil. The person is doing something that would normally be regarded as wrong, such as killing or hurting people. Somehow, the person must sustain the belief that it is right. This is often done by focusing on the goodness of the overriding goal.

Evil is not likely to result when people firmly believe that ends do not justify means. If they evaluate their methods by the same lofty standards by which they judge their goals and purposes, evil will be held in check.

Loving what is right is different from hating what is wrong and feeling right about it.

Before you harm life, you need a just cause.

Engross what is just, repudiate what is unjust.

Everything you do in life should be done as just as possible.

Evil has no charm, because justice has it all.

Evil offends justice and justice upsets evil.

Just because a majority of the people vote in favor of something doesn't make it morally right, it just means a majority of the people could be corrupt.

Never pledge your allegiance to anyone, to anything, other than to what is just.

You don't want to be too hard or too easy, you don't want to be wrong when it comes to crime, you want to be just, morally right.

You have a moral duty to make what's unjust just, if it's just that you do so.

The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent.

The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent. Shiva

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let your impulse be in your own power.

Even when the gods stood on the side of righteousness, they were concerned with the act more than with the intent.

Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose. To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back. What else could it be but to live life fully— to pay out goodness like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.

that evil must be overcome with good.

These two things be common to the souls, as of God, so of men, and of every reasonable creature, first that in their own proper work hey cannot be hindered by anything: and secondly, that their happiness doth consist in a disposition to, and in the practice of righteousness; and that in these their desire is terminated.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don't.

For what is just and good is on my side.